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Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

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I'm working on a simple open source iOS client for hacker news that makes use of the latest iOS design language and features.

No Ads, no paywall, just focused on a good reading experience with some extra niceties like widgets on the home screen.

Website: https://www.hackerreader.app/

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hacker-reader/id6754137305

Repo: https://github.com/danielcspaiva/hacker-reader

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

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Continuing with my retro productivity software blog, Stone Tools: https://stonetools.ghost.io I was getting a little bored of retrocomputing discourse being so centered on gaming, so I'm exploring the productivity software of the 8/16-bit era. I put real effort into learning and using the programs, giving my light-hearted but heartfelt assessment of its form and function for both its time and today. Using the softwar…

This is a neat project! I read the last post and I’ll work my way back through them.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

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After creating the feature request for Claude Code hooks[1] a few months back, Cupcake is nearly ready for release.

Cupcake is a governance/policy-enforcement layer for agents. Its innovation is binding OPA/rego to agent runtimes (via hooks).

I do not believe we will every strictly rely on "better" models in the wild without deterministic guarantees or ways for enterprises to factor in their own alignment - system prompts dont cut it.

https://github.com/eqtylab/cupcake

Stay tuned for the formal release here in a couple of weeks.

[1] https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/712

Cupcake GitHub: https://github.com/eqtylab/cupcake

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

#304
I’m building Culink — a platform for curated link collections.

Not random bookmarks, but organized and shareable collections you can actually discover. Think Pinterest for links.

Day 13: 27 collections live, and people are already creating their own — which is exciting to see!

https://www.culink.io/discover

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

#306
I'm working on https://mimicmarketer.com It allows you to define different personas that you can then test marketing on. This allows you to see how different personas will interact with your marketing. Currently, it has a feature that allows you to define basic personas and test them against two types of copy, as well as a tool that grades your email subject lines and bodies against a generic persona, assessing the likelihood of user interaction with the content.

My other project is https://eggexplorer.com This is a site I wish I had when building out my flock of chickens. It allows you to see the different characteristics of chickens and which hatcheries sell each different breed. You can also see which hatcheries sell hatching eggs for each breed as well.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

#307
Working with a group of friends on a "microcontroller-for-makers" kind of thing called the MakerPort. (https://makerport.fun) Sort of similar to an Arduino or micro:bit, but uses the MicroBlocks programming editor (https://microblocks.fun) created by John Maloney, who was the original team leader for Scratch at MIT for 11 years. The hardware includes an mp3 player, I2C ports, accelerometer and true capacitive touch sensors.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

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I've been working on a sillier project lately. Green teeth! Lumina has made a probiotic strain that is able to, theoretically, prevent cavities. I don't care that much about, but I do think it is a neat strain that can likely colonize your mouth. I'm genetically engineering it to express sfGFP, which would theoretically make my teeth fluorescent green under black light. Would be fun at raves! Also, if I make out with…

That sounds so cool. Could you tell me more?

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

#309
I've built a self-hosted reddit-like community platform in Go: https://baklab.app

Users can create their own sub-communities, and within them, set up different categories and boards. Posts can be voted on, and board types can include regular posts, Q&A, or live chat. It's like a hybrid of Reddit and Discord but leans more towards a traditional web community. It also supports server-side rendering, making it SEO-friendly. This project is an extension of my previous Hacker News clone, dizkaz (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43885998).

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

#310
ArtCraft [1], a source available Adobe + AI.

Here's a demo / trailer that shows it off:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNHSTfWbkaA

If you're into movies or filmmaking, it's a fantastic AI tool for consistent, fully-intentional scenes with deliberate set and actor blocking.

It's also the cheapest model aggregator service out there. You can log into every AI image and video provider directly and don't have to pay me anything to use the tool. You can use your Sora account, Midjourney account, Grok account, etc. It'll soon let you log into other aggregators like OpenArt, plug in your FAL API key, etc. so you can use your credits/funds wherever they happen to live.

Unlike the other "model aggregator" websites like Higgsfield, this is a desktop app written in Rust that you can keep. It also has highly intentional 2D and 3D design surfaces especially built for design.

Text prompting sucks for artists and designers, so I'm trying to put image and video design onto canvases that you can intuitively mold like clay.

Here are some short films made with ArtCraft:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4NFXGMuwpY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAAiiKteM-U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuVW8l-_O3I

Would love to hear feedback if anyone tries it out.

[1] https://getartcraft.com

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